The sex reconstruction surgery proposed to be performed for the first time in the country on eight transgenders at a government hospital here on Thursday has been postponed indefinitely due to lack of adequate facilities.

After a week-long boycott campaign by gay networks, Novotel Siam Square will today formally apologise to Sutthirat Simsiri-wong, a transvestite who was barred entry to a nightclub at the hotel two weeks ago.

[NY,USA] [Letters to the Editor]Change after marriage could be immoralSylvia Honig (letter, June 30) states that homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals, etc., want fair and equal treatment under the law.Males and females who cannot function as biological males and females are, to put it bluntly, dysfunctional. If they knew they were in this condition before marriage, they had no right to get married to an unknowing partner. Such a marriage could be annulled.

[MA,USA] [News/Commentary]Victim of Lowell attack is a she, not a heLast week, three Lowell men were indicted by a Middlesex County grand jury for allegedly assaulting a transwoman as she walked home from a bar around 2:45 a.m. on June 2. In announcing the indictment, Middlesex County District Attorney Gerald Leone's office identified the victim as a man who had been attacked because of "his sexual orientation. " Later, in the press release, the victim is described as someone "who considers himself a transsexual. "

[CA, USA]City budget bodes well for LGBTsExcerpt: Dufty also secured $150,000 to transition several transgender programs now overseen by the University of California at San Francisco to the city's Department of Public Health. Health officials are expected to look for a local nonprofit to take over the programs, which faced closure after UCSF fired the researcher overseeing the projects and declined to seek federal funding to maintain them.

[CA,USA]Transgender Inmate Settles Civil Rights Suit with OCJohn Doe, a 2005 inmate of the Orange County Jail, today successfully settled a civil rights suit against the County resulting in significant policy changes and a settlement sum of close to $50,000. Doe, represented by San Diego law firm Stock Stephens, LLP and the Transgender Law Center (TLC), alleged denial of medical care and gender identity harassment in the suit. The resulting policy changes will formalize policies regarding provision of hormones to transgender inmates and training for medical and corrections staff.